Hi! I’m Sarah!

I’m a night shift medical technologist from Michigan who’s trying to balance a healthy lifestyle with a full schedule.

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I haven’t posted in forever, just quietly lurked/liked occasionally, but if anyone would like an update on my life here it is:

A week ago I had a bilateral salpingectomy because my doctor is an absolute BOSS and respects my decision to not ever have kids

I got a puppy named Indy and a cat named Coco moved in (she showed up in my woods one day and never left, she had a clipped ear and the vet said she was feral but she decided she wanted to live with me 🤷🏼‍♀️ )

I’m officially in a full time day shift position at work! My skin and eyes are still adjusting to sunlight 😎

I’ve been pretty ok overall! Hope you all have been too!

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29 years old and I still don’t know how to eat waffles without getting syrup in my hair 🙄

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*30

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*31

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Not to brag or anything, but I think I might actually be a Disney princess…

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My new friend 🐦 ❤️

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🩸 Interesting Work Story 🩸

We had to run a massive transfusion protocol the other night on a guy with surgical complications. His blood type was ABpos. Since that’s not a super common type and they can take anything, we gave him Apos. We ended up giving him 24 units plus a bunch of plasma, platelets and cryo. Essentially we changed his blood type by the end since we replaced his original blood volume with Apos donor blood. His type and screens the next few months are going to be interesting.

Also, PLEASE DONATE IF YOU ARE ABLE! This blood shortage is no joke. Two weeks ago we wouldn’t have had enough blood to save him 😰

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Sometime in the next 3 days I’ll get an email telling me whether or not I got into my school’s MLS program. I think I might throw up. If you have some calm to spare, please send it my way, thanks. 

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Guys, I’m graduated now and take my boards on Wednesday 😎

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I passed!

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Be the Light Molotov by pcggamer

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Sometime in the next 3 days I’ll get an email telling me whether or not I got into my school’s MLS program. I think I might throw up. If you have some calm to spare, please send it my way, thanks. 

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Guys, I’m graduated now and take my boards on Wednesday 😎

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How a vegan does taco Tuesday. Tostada Tuesday? Either way, it was amazing 😍

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I’m avoiding making unnecessary trips to the store right now but this might make me break. This looks so good and I don’t have half the stuff to make it 😔

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In 1990, the high school dropout rate for Dolly Parton's hometown of Sevierville Tennessee was at 34% (Research shows that most kids make up their minds in fifth/sixth grade not to graduate). That year, all fifth and sixth graders from Sevierville were invited by Parton to attend an assembly at Dollywood. They were asked to pick a buddy, and if both students completed high school, Dolly Parton would personally hand them each a $500 check on their graduation day. As a result, the dropout rate for those classes fell to 6%, and has generally retained that average to this day.

Shortly after the success of The Buddy Program, Parton learned in dealing with teachers from the school district that problems in education often begin during first grade when kids are at different developmental levels. That year The Dollywood Foundation paid the salaries for additional teachers assistants in every first grade class for the next 2 years, under the agreement that if the program worked, the school system would effectively adopt and fund the program after the trial period.

During the same period, Parton founded the Imagination Library in 1995: The idea being that children from her rural hometown and low-income families often start school at a disadvantage and as a result, will be unfairly compared to their peers for the rest of their lives, effectively encouraging them not to pursue higher education. The objective of the Imagination library was that every child in Sevier County would receive one book, every month, mailed and addressed to the child, from the day they were born until the day they started kindergarten, 100% free of charge. What began as a hometown initiative now serves children in all 50 states, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, mailing thousands of free books to children around the world monthly.

On March 1, 2018 Parton donated her 100 millionth book at the Library of Congress: a copy of "Coat of Many Colors" dedicated to her father, who never learned to read or write.

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Joleen who?

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Today was my last day of clinicals. I’m officially not a student anymore. It feels weird; I graduated high school in 2007 so it feels like I’ve been in school forever. My program director teared up during our online meeting and that’s when it hit me how big today was. I have my degree. I take my certification exam next month and I’ll be a real medical technologist. I’ll have letters after my name.

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I’m on a post liking streak. Sorry for all the notifications, I’m just really happy to see all of the people I follow making excellent posts and being on the right side of history ✊🏾

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It’s so hot today 🥵 It took everything to get me to walk after work but I went 3 miles on some trails in the woods 👍🏼

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I went to my first bone marrow collection today. Visually it wasn’t bad, but the sounds involved were 🥴

I’m one of the first students not to pass out or have to leave the room though, so 💁‍♀️